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Scylla and Charybdis: Why Startups are Hard
Albert Wenger – Sep 26, 2012
Yesterday we had our portfolio company summit with the CEOs of most of our active investments in our office. It is always a really fun day because there are great discussions about a far ranging set of topics from hiring [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Data Structures (JSON)
Albert Wenger – Sep 25, 2012
In today’s Tech Tuesday we are continuing our romp through Data Structures as part of the ongoing series on programming by looking at JSON. Now technically JSON, which stands for JavaScript Object Notation, is not a data structure but a [...] Read more
Public Markets Asset Allocation
Albert Wenger – Sep 24, 2012
Over the years I have tried a number of different financial advisors but have never been particularly happy. In particular, I have found that most of them seemed to ignore long term trends that I believe in and seemed to [...] Read more
Ask Patents: Peer Progressive Agenda At Work
Albert Wenger – Sep 21, 2012
Earlier this week I blogged about Steven Johnson’s wonderful new book Future Perfect, which lays out the Peer Progressive agenda. I am therefore particularly excited about yesterday’s launch of AskPatents, a collaboration between the USPTO and our portfolio company StackExchange. [...] Read more
The Bear Case on Apple
Albert Wenger – Sep 20, 2012
It’s hard to be bearish on a company that has had a run as amazing as Apple and a hugely successful launch of a new product. But there are two reasons that lead me to question where things will go [...] Read more
Future Perfect: I Am A Peer Progressive
Albert Wenger – Sep 19, 2012
The very first post on Continuations explained that I think of myself as a technology optimist. Thanks to Steven Johnson’s new book Future Perfect I can now proudly add a second label to that: peer progressive. In Future Perfect, Steven [...] Read more
Internet (Self) Censorship and European History
Albert Wenger – Sep 17, 2012
Last week’s posting of a video to Youtube that resulted in violence and killings presents an interesting challenge for the open Internet. The whole incident illustrates that the design and capabilities of the Internet are fundamentally at odds with many [...] Read more
Feature Friday: The Challenge of Staying Simple
Albert Wenger – Sep 14, 2012
At the airport in London this morning just before getting on my flight back, I read John Batelle’s epic complaint about his usability problems with Apple software. That got me thinking about my 30 years of experience with a wide [...] Read more
Technology, Consumer Debt and the Labor Market
Albert Wenger – Sep 13, 2012
I have been struggling to articulate why I feel quite so concerned about the economy but in a dinner conversation last night I had a kind of Eureka moment. It is now well understood that for at least two decades [...] Read more